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Ice Age Insights is a new project looking at Palaeolithic archaeology and geology in the East Midlands.

See what we're up to over the next few months - click on image below

Palaeolithic spear thrower experiment. In use by Homo sapiens since the Upper Palaeolithic (around 30,000 years ago)

A stag at Bradgate Park, Leicestershire. Red deer are the largest British land mammal, descended from the stags and hinds that crossed from Europe after the Ice Age, humans hunted them here 14,000 years ago.